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Memories of a Catholic Girlhood

Af: Mary McCarthy Engelsk Paperback

Memories of a Catholic Girlhood

Af: Mary McCarthy Engelsk Paperback
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Blending memories and family myths, Mary McCarthy takes us back to the 1920s, when she was orphaned into a world of relations as colourful, potent and mysterious as the Catholic religion. There was her Catholic grandmother who combined piousness with pugnacity, and her veiled Jewish grandmother who mourned the disastrous effects of a face-lift; there was wicked Uncle Myers who beat her for the good of her soul, and Aunt Margaret who laced her orange juice with castor oil, and taped her lips at night to prevent unhealthy ‘mouth-breathing’. ‘Many a time in the course of doing these memoirs,’ Mary McCarthy says, ‘I have wished that I were writing fiction.’ But these were the people, along with the Ladies of the Sacred Heart convent school, who inspired her engaging perception, her devastating sense of the sublime and ridiculous, and her witty, novelist’s imagination. Memories of a Catholic Girlhood is a major work by one of the leading American intellectuals of the twentieth century – witty, scathing, piercingly insightful and stylishly written.

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Blending memories and family myths, Mary McCarthy takes us back to the 1920s, when she was orphaned into a world of relations as colourful, potent and mysterious as the Catholic religion. There was her Catholic grandmother who combined piousness with pugnacity, and her veiled Jewish grandmother who mourned the disastrous effects of a face-lift; there was wicked Uncle Myers who beat her for the good of her soul, and Aunt Margaret who laced her orange juice with castor oil, and taped her lips at night to prevent unhealthy ‘mouth-breathing’. ‘Many a time in the course of doing these memoirs,’ Mary McCarthy says, ‘I have wished that I were writing fiction.’ But these were the people, along with the Ladies of the Sacred Heart convent school, who inspired her engaging perception, her devastating sense of the sublime and ridiculous, and her witty, novelist’s imagination. Memories of a Catholic Girlhood is a major work by one of the leading American intellectuals of the twentieth century – witty, scathing, piercingly insightful and stylishly written.

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 264
ISBN-13: 9781804271650
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 1804271659
Kategori: Litterære essays
Udg. Dato: 13 mar 2025
Længde: 18mm
Bredde: 122mm
Højde: 198mm
Forlag: Fitzcarraldo Editions
Oplagsdato: 13 mar 2025
Forfatter(e): Mary McCarthy
Forfatter(e) Mary McCarthy

Kategori Litterære essays

ISBN-13 9781804271650

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 264

Udgave

Længde 18mm

Bredde 122mm

Højde 198mm

Udg. Dato 13 mar 2025

Oplagsdato 13 mar 2025

Forlag Fitzcarraldo Editions

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